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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9646713" data-attributes="member: 2629">There are things that can be done in the 5E space that balances the load, better.  However, it would essentially require the rewriting of the system for them to all have an equal level of importance.Things you would likely want to achieve:1.) Decrease the importance of Constitution for hps.  One method of doing this would be to not have it give you hps, but instead have it give you damage resistance against exhaustion damage - and then introduce exhaustion damage mechanics that hurt your PC for pushing themselves too much (and for certain spells - like a ray of sickness).  Alternatively, give Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma and Strength relevant combat focused significance akin to the AC bonus from Dex or HP bonus from Con.  I can't come up with great examples for each that I would think parallel these bonuses.2.) Increase the value of constitution for ability checks.  You don't necessarily need to tie a bunch of skills to it, although it could help, but you need to make the number of constitution ability checks a PC rolls increase.3.) Charisma and Intelligence need to see more 'required' uses.  They can't be allowed to be dump stats with little to no effect.  We'd want to see a lack of intelligence limit PCs more meaningfully (example - low intelligence characters may not know how to care for their weapons and might see them become less effective over time), and we'd want to have NPCs respond to a low charism PC as uncharismatic even if they are not the face of the party.  In the 1990s I rally tried to balance that attributes.  I spent a long time on it - and determined it was a fool's errand.  I was never going to get there.  The homebrew system I came up with just never was good enough for me to want to use it - but I tried hard.</blockquote>

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